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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—In Grovsr’'s hoe there's a new baby girl,
A nugget that ought to bring joy,
But Grover ain't tickled half as much with
this pearl,
As ifit had been a big boy.
—The average summer girl is con-
tented now-a-days if nothing more than
a mullet rewards her season’s angling
for a man. :
—When a young man arrives at the
conclusion that he is teo good to be
bossed by anyone he usually finds “him-
self without a job of any sort.
—Those who had arrived at the con-
clusion that it had forgotten how to be
summer any more, have been recon-
structing their ideas within the past few
days.
—If there was only some one to go
ahead and marshall the forges Mr. QUAY
would be surprised at the way he could
make the Governor hustle for delegates
right herein Centre county.
—Official weather reports of the Unit-
ed States bureau fix Harrisburg as the
hottest town in Pennsylvania. The
friction caused by the working of that
gang of thieves down there explains
it all. :
— Without a dry dock in the country
that is large enough to accommodate
our battleships and witheut sailors to
man them our modern men-of-war are
about as much use as a fifth wheel to a
wagon. >
—The social order of Elks, that had
been almost split in twain by some
petty grievance, reunited at Atlantic
City on Wednesday and urlocked
horns. They more than likely filled
them up too. .
—Boston is said to be captured by
Christian Endeavor delegates to the
national convention there. If those
strangers get to filling up too bounti-
fully on baked beans they will have a
second Fourth at the Hub.
—Our Mr. Minister Eustis has got-
ten into a mess over in Paris because
the Figaro, a disreputable, scandal
m onging sheet, published an alleged
interview in which he is credited with
having eaid mean things about Spain.
Of course Spain is on her ear, but if she
gets too gay we will have a Cuban
chann el to settle the matter in.
—Mrs. CATHARINE O’LEARY died in
Chicago on the 3rd inst. It was her
rambunctious old cow that kicked over
a lamp on that memorable night in Oc-
tober, 1871, and started the great con-
"_— flagration that nearly wiped Chicago
that $900,000,000 fire was thef largest
out of existence. It is to be of that
one that the old lady will ever sge.
—Of all the idiotic drivel we have
seen on a printed sheet Mr. H. U. Tis-
BENS’ article on ‘smiles ve tears,” that
appeared in the last issue of the Al-
toona Sunday News, is a master piece.
How any mind could conceive such
trash is certainly difficult to compre-
hend unless it was rolled out on wheels
that revolve too fast.
—The Republican party in Pennsyl-
vania is like a lot of Kilkenny cats,
these times. Such a turmoil as is being
stirred up in that party should make
things easy for the Democrats this fall.
‘What, with Quay and his friends ready
to slaughter MARTIN and his friends, at
the first opportunity, more could be
done than wait until the proper time,
then jump for the puddin’ while they
are scrapping for it.
—Cornell won the first of her trial
heats at the Henley regatta because the
Leander crew did not start and the Ithi-
cans were like the little boy who always
stood at the head of kis class when there
was no one else there. The second day
the Trinity hall erew beat Cornell by
more than eight lengths which the
American trainer tries to explain away
by saying they were sick. Most any
crew would besick after sucha defeat.
—Two months ago people were say-
ing ‘stranger things than that have
happened !"” in answer to the query :
“Do you think HASTINGS might be-
come President?’ To-day the same
people have'nt a thought of associating
the name Hastings with the place
of President. A greater impossibility
could hardly be conceived. and why ?
All because the man failed to compre-
hend that there are others in Pennsyi-
vania besides party henchmen.
—FRrRaNk WILLING LEACH, real es-
tate deputy sheriff of Philadelphia, has
resigned his $6,000 position because the
sheriff is not in sympathy with Mr.
QUAY, for whom Mr. Leacm professes
warmest friendship. Such actions as
this are so rare that they should not go
unnoticed. Such friendship as was
evidenced in this resignation is not of
the sycophantic kind that is boosting
what is called the administration wing
of the Republican party. Even should
Mr. Quay lose his fight it will have
been a consolation to know that such
unselfish, devoted friendship, as that of
Mr. LEAcn’s, exists for him.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
“VOL. 40
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 12, 1895.
NO. 27.
Descending From a High Office.
After having received a majority of
two hundred and forty thousand for
Governor, it is rather a come down. for
Governor Hastings to beg of the Re-
publicans of Centre county to send him
as a delegate to the State Convention
where he may be able to defend him-
self in ‘the present political emer-
gency.” The acknowledgement that
he is confronted by ‘an emergency’ go
soon after his carrying the State by a
phenomenal majority, is decidedly
rich.
In order to meet the pressure of this
emergency the Governor believes it
necessary to descend from his high of-
fice and dabble in the proceedings of a
State Convention. For this reason he
calls upon the Republicans of his coun-
ty to elect delegates that are friendly
to him, he himself to be included in
the delegation, his purpose being to
secure his own election as the presiding
officer of the State Convention. He
claims that this is necessary to secure
success in the struggle he is making
“for fair play in Pennsylvania politics.”
The public are not at a loss to un-
derstand the character of this struggle
for “fair play.” It issimply a fight as
to whether the party machine shall
continue to be run by the old boss, or
be transferred to the control of the
Governor and the faction he represents.
This is about all the principle that is
involved in the struggle. This con-
stitutes the sum total of the “emer-
gency.”
The people, however, may ask
whether so low a tactional issue as this
wiil justify a Governor of Pennsyl-
vania in descending from his high of-
fice and seeking to be elected a dele-
gate to a State Convention? The chief
magistrate of Pennsylvania should be
above dirty factional strife, but Gover-
nor HasTINGs wants to be right in the
midst of such dirt by acting as the
factional presiding officer of.a party
convention. I§ this to be the low
descent from the high pinnacle of a
quarter of a million majority ?
The Factions Are Fighting.
The bostilities that have broken out
between the Republican factions have
become so bitter that Quay considers
it necessary to fiz his headquarters in
Philadelphia, right in the midst of the
other faction, where he will be better
able to watch and couateract their
schemes, and at the same time make
an occasional raid on the country dis-
tricte.
The boss is banking a good deal on
the effects of the investigation of the
city government, expecting that it will
ghow up rascalities damaging to the |
Marry and PorTER gang, and with
this view the offer of the Citizens’
Municipal Association to furnish $20,.
000 for the expense of the investigation
will no doubt be accepted. This would
head off the MarTIN-PorTER-HasTINGS
factions, who counted on stopping the
Lexow process by defeating an appro-
priation to pay ite expenses.
The anti-Quay faction start the
fight with the largest claims. In fact
they claim almost everything in sight.
They are willing to allow the old boss
no more t three delegates to the
State Convention from Philadelphia.
They represent the rural Republicans
ag rapid.y falling in line against Quay,
and if their representations could be
believed there will be but a slim show
for the BEAVER statesman in the State
Convention.
No doubt Hastings has made
an impression in some of the counties
by the use of the appointing power
and other prostitutions of his execu-
tive opportunity, but after the country
dietricts are heard from, and the lines
are finally drawn in the State Conven-
tion, it will be found that the old
leader, who has bossed it so long over
the party in the State, will not be en-
tirely wiped out. It will rather ap-
pear that he has wiped up the ground
with the upstarts who have presumed
to challenge his leadership.
——MCcKINLEY now eports an LL.
D. after his name. It was conferred
the other day by Allegheny college
and means doctor of laws. It is
rather significant that an institution of
learning should confer such a degree
on McKINLEY after his signal failure
at doctoring the governmental tariff
laws.
The Recklessness of Selfishness.
The President has added another to |
the list of terse and sagacious expres-
sions for which he has become noted.
In his Fourth of July letter to the
Tammany association he said that
“our danger is found in the reckless
ness of selffishness.”
This remark was aimed at the monop-
olistic combinations, known as trusts,
whose selfishness seeks to control the
operations of business for their own
advantage, and results in encroach-
ment upon private right, interference
with free business intercourse among
the people, and the ruin of all who
may dare to compete with them.
This is a wrong against which the
voice of every good citizen and good
patriot should be raised, and it fur-
nished a fitting subject for one of Mr,
CLEVELAND'S trenchant aphorisms. It
is an evil that extends further than the
oppression and spoliation consequent
upon business monopoly. It tends to
sap the foundation of our free govern.
ment by debauching Legislatures and
suborning high public functionaries.
An example of the “recklessness of
selfishness’ is most impressively fur
nished in the case of the Standard Oil
Company, and nowhere has it been
more strikingly exemplified than in
Penneylvania. A natural resource of
the State which should have contrib-
uted to the general wealth and pros-
perity of its inhabitants, was reckless
ly seized by a monopoly and converted
to the purpose of building up a few
colossal fortunes. The State has really
but little more substantial to show as
the result of this great endowment of
nature than the debris of exhausted oil
districts. The fortunes made out of it
are enjoyed in other States, and what
yet may be monopolized of this dimin-
ishing production has been handed
over to the Standard Company by a
venal Legislature and a eervile Gov
ernor.
Well may Grover CLEVELAND, ap-
plying his remark to the business
methods of monopolistic combinations,
say that “our danger is found in the
recklessness of selfishness,”
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Showing Its Fruits.
It is to be hoped that bitter feuds
growing out of sectarian animosity
may not become engendered and per-
petuated in this country and lead to
such turbulent scenes as occur between
the Catholic and Protestant factions in
Ireland, but it looks as if that is going
to be the result of the demonstrations
of the organization known as the
A.B A, .
One of the fruits of this encourage-
ment of sectarian strife showed itself at
a Fourth of July celebration in East
Boston, where the A. P. A. paraded in
8 manner that was intended to excite
ill feeling. = A fight was the result in
which several lives were lost and a
number of bodily injuries inflicted.
The A. P. A. have adopted as their
emblem the “little red school house,”
the idea they wish to convey being
that they have assumed the guardian-
ship of American education against
the designs of the Catholics. This
assumption, which has no other than
a political object, is offensive to a large
class of good citizens who entertain no
intention of injuring any of the institu-
tions of this country. It should also
be offensive to all classes of good citi-
zens, who should eee and resent the
impudence of a secret, oath-bound,
dark-lantern association which pre-
sumes to act as the especial protector
of the American schools.
The “little red school house,” which
laid the foundation of education in this
country, was not the source of such in-
struction as emanates from the secret
lodges of the A. P. A. It was the orig-
inal fountain of American liberty, and
inculcated those principles of political
and religious freedom and equality up-
on which this Republic is based, and
without which it could not exist. A
secret, oath-bound organization is the
enemy of those principles.
I SR ERM anny
——Quay has been up in Luzerne
and Lackawanna counties this week,
invading ‘the political pasture ground
around which Hastings believed he
had secured his fences by a judicious
use of the appointing power. A Su-
perior judge assigned to each of those
counties may fix them for the Hast-
INas faction, but MaTT. went up to see
about it.
What Has Caused the Change ?
For at least twenty years M. S. Quay
has been the acknowledged leader of
the Republican party in this State.
The party claimed to be proud of him.
They resented any assault made upon
either his political or personal reputa-
tion. They looked up to him for coun-
-sel and followed his leadership. There
were very few Republicans inthe State
who did not rejoice in wearing the
Quay collar. When he raised large
amounts of boodle for the corruption
of elections they all believed that he
was doing a righteous thing, inasmuch
agit was for the benefit of “the grand
old party.” State Conventions and
State Legislatures bowed to his dicta:
tion, and the party turned out its full
strength to elect the candidates whose
nomination be dictated.
What has happened that has so sud-
denly changed the quality of his leader-
ship? In what way has he lost the
right to boss the party ? What has
juetified Hastings, MaGEE, MARTIN
and PorTER in rising up against their
old leader, with the determination to
down him ?
This insurrection shows the effects
of over-weening ambition. HasTINGs
carried the State by such an unusual
majority that he became inspired with
the'idea that he was a bigger man than
Quay ; and henchmen, who had been
pinning their faith to the old boss and
shouting in his train, began to look up
to the Governor as the coming man,
and found no difficulty in changing
their allegiance. Certain politicians
belonging to the party, more or less
prcminent, who have grown jealous of
Quay and find him standing in their
way, bave eagerly taken hold of Hasr-
INGS a8 the leading factor in the rebel-
lion, and by flattering his vanity and
making use of his apparent popularity,
hare succeeded in putting him at the
bead of the hostile movement. They
es: making a big show and a great
‘noise, but it is to be seen whether they
will be able to down the old bose.
—— The New York World has pub-
lished the names of manufacturers in
various parts of the conniry who by
voluntarily increasing the wages of
their employes have enabled 400,000
working men and mechanics to fll
their dinner pails abundantly under
the operation of the WiLsoN tariff.
The McKINLEY papers are very quiet
upon this subject, but their reticense
does not keep back the tide of pros-
perity, which will keep rushing along,
as it has been gradually doing for the
past six months. The tide has turned
in the direction of business activity
and will zo on until national prosperity
is entirely restored,
——The “grand old “party” in this
State must surely be losing its frater-
nal feeling when the brethren, divided
into factions, are hurling the most of-
fensive epithets at each other. Charges
of an atrocious character are passing
between them. A ‘campaign of
assassination” is one of the terms
that is being used, and the beastly ac-
cusation of belonging to the “hog
combine” also figures among the
beautiful expressions that are being
interchanged. This is but the begin-
ning of the dirtiest factional fight that
has ever come oft in Pennsylvania
politica.
——It will be scarcely necessary for
a citizen of Pennsylvania to take a
summer outing this year for the pur-
pose of amusement. He will find
plenty of diversion in staying at home
and reading the comments of the Re-
publican papers on the fight that has
sprung up between the bosses. Noth-
ing could be more prolific of amuse-
ment, particularly when they speak
hysterically of “campaigns of assassina-
tion’ and bring the hog in to illustrate
their metaphors.
°
——The Democratic State conven-
tion will meet in Williamsport on Sep-
tember 11th: This will be the first
time the Lumber city has been honor:
ed by the assemblage of this body
since ORANGE T. NosLE, of Erie, was
nominated for the State Treasurership
several years ago.
Unto the President and Mrs.
CLEVELAND another daughter has been
born. Will they call it Naoxi?
The Governor's Libel Suit.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Harriseure, July 5.—~ Governor
Hastings was asked by the Dispatch
correspondent to-cight whether the
statement was true that he had given
a receipt for $3,000 in the case decided
in his favor at Ebensburg recently, but
bad not received the money. He
promptly replied in the affirmative,
and added that when Mr. O'Connor, the
defendant, admitted in his testimony
that he had misrepresented him he
would not avail himself of any dam-
ages. To use the Governor's language,
that he “did not want to burn his fing-
ers with the money.”
As to the story that the costs in the
suit had not been paid, he eaid he
knew mothing ot the matter.
A dispatch from Ebensburg eays :
On June 19 (Thursday) Frank O'Con-
nor, who had retained several leading
members of the bar from Jamestown,
engaged as local counsel Frank Shoe-
maker, of Ebensburg, Mr. Shoemaker
obtained from Mr. O'Connor an agree-
ment that he would abide by any con-
tract entered into by Mr. Shoemaker
on his behalf.
Mr. Shoemaker and Mr. Wiltbank,
of Philadelphia, leading counsel for
Governor Hastings, met on Friday,
and in a few moments the outline of a
compromise was agreed upon by theke
two. It was ratified immediately by |
the Governor.
“I proceeded to draw up a memo-
randum of dgreement, written with a
lead pencil,” said Mr. Shoemaker, in
relating the circumstances to your cor-
respondent, “This memorandum was
agreed to by Mr. Wiltbank and by
General Hastings. This memorandum
stated :
“(It is agreed between the plaintiff
.and defendant that the plaintiff shall
call such witnesses as he may deem
necessary (10 or 12 in number), to
prove the distribution of the money re-
ceived at Johnstown. It is agreed that
the plaintiff shall be called to deny the
truth of the statement made in Mr.
O'Connor's speech. It is agreed that
the defendant shall ‘be called to ex-
plain the manner and matter of his
speech, and deny all intent on his part
to reflect upon the character of Daniel
H. Hastings as to want of honor. Then
it is agreed that the plea of not guilty
shall be withdrawn by leave of. court
and the plea of nolo confedere enteted.
Then a verdict shall be given under the
. instruction of the court in the sum of
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$3,000.”
“At the time this agreement was
reached,” continued Mr. Shoemaker,
“it was also agreed that Mr. Wiltbank
should give me a receipt for the
amount of the verdict and costs as
soon as the verdict was rendered, and
that the receipt should be dated sev-
eral days ahead, and should not be
{ placed on record until the day it was
dated. It was also agreed that the
costs should be paid by the plaintiff
within for days.”
On ing, the Prothonotary stated
that the’ costs, amounting to $14.94,
had not been paid.
RAAT:
A Pretty Tribute to a Pretty Mother-
hood.
From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.
The life of Mrs. Cleveland during
the second Administration of her dis-
tinguished husband has been altogeth-
er different from that which she so
charmingly pursued during her first
residence in the White House. In the
former period she was in many re-
spects the lovable idol of the nation.
Few women, indeed, in our national
history have won and held a more en-
viable place in the public esteem. This
was, of course, largely due to the mar-
riage in the Executive Mansion and
to the youthful beauty and charm
of the President's bride. Yet Mrs.
Cleveland was in every respect equal
to the exacting demands of her high
position. She was the centre at all
times and under all circumstances of
an atmosphere of purity and grace’
which reflected honor upon the whole
land. Within the past few years ma-
tronly duties have occupied the atten-
tion of the wife of the President, and
to-day the American people extend
cordial welcome to the third little in-
mate of the Cleveland household and
to her wee elf, her gracious mother,
and her honored father the heartiest
congratulations. The romantic popu-
lar attachment thus felt for the fami-
lies of the President is a touching illus-
tration of the true spirit ot republican
institutions. The history of the White
House matrons contains no record
more interesting than the life of Frances
Folsom veland and the three little
ones who ‘wow cluster around her.
May tlre Ith and happiness be all
that is‘ever vouchsafed to the best of
mortals.
Reid Is Getting Uneasy.
From the Lebanon Star.
The New York Zribunc wants to
know whether the brisk business re-
vival under Democratic rule will last.
The probabilities are that it has come
to stay. It isn’t pleasant for some of
our friends to: contemplate after the
persistent talk about ruin, bankruptcy
and starvation indulged in by the Re-
publican press. But remember, this is
a cruel and unsympathetic world and
look as cheerful as you can under the
circumstances.
Spawls from the Keystone,
_—Berks county’s total tax levy is $22),
881.70.
—Ice formed in Eastern Iowa Monday
night. !
—S8unstroke killed Thomas McAtee at
Shenandoah. Ty -
—Lehigh Valley colleries will this week
work five days.
—Trolley parties are being inaugurated
on the Pottsville line. 3 re
—Mayor Shanaman, of Reading, will go
upon the lecture platform.
ty trolly line has reached Media. :
—The Emergency Hospital at Potts-
ville will be opened next Monday.
—There is talk of uniting Mauch Chunk
and East Mauch Chunk boroughs.
—Little John Luft, son of H. Luft,
Wilkesbarre, drowned while bathing.
—Thieves stole $200 worth of silverware
from Mrs. H. 8S. Goodwin, South Bethle-
hem.
—The Collieries of the Philadelphia '&
Reading Company will work three days
this week. :
—The Millersville Normal school gradu.
ated a class of over a hundred at the end
of this term.
—Tumbling down a high precipice at
Wilkesbarre, little George Peterski was
mortally hurt.
—Grant Simons, claiming to be bewitch-
ed, beat his mother néar Towanda, and
was locked up.
—Accused of practicing medicine at
Lebanon without a diploma, A.S. Reiter
is in the toils.
—The Allentown Boys’ Brigade, 10)
strong, Monday went into camp at Man.
hattan Park.
—Drinking ammonia for cough medi-
cine, David Arters, of Pottstown, narrow-
ly escaped death.
—The Schuylkill county Commissioners
question the constitutionality of the new
Controller’s act.
—Hotel Proprietor Amandus Rice, at
Wind Gap, who shot the Pender brothers,
has surrendered.
—Falling from a cherry tree in West
Manchester, York county, aged Joseph K-
Fishel was killed.
—Intending to shoot a cat at Lebanon,
Charles Miller, shot his companion, John
Bender, in the leg.
—Ex-Chief of Police B. F. Meyers, of
Wilkesbarre, has gone insane, and is in
the Danville Asylum.
box was found in the river at Norristown
by William Hullinger.
—Ex-Prothonotaryf William ~ Gerberi
fell from his haymow near Lebanon and
is in a critical condition.
—The Vigilant Steam Fire Engine Com-
pany, of Columbia, will visit the Atlanta
Cotton Exposition in October.
—Judge Cyrus L. Pershing, who has
long been ill, returned to his duties at
Pottsville Court House, Saturday.
—In escaping from his burning home at
Bendersville, Lehigh county, Alexander
Schooner was dangerously scorched.
—Lancaster city councils refuse to give
the police a vacation with pay. claiming
that they have no legalright todo so.
—Ten young men, who are accused of
assaulting L. W. Spires at Shillington,
Berks county, are under arrest for riot,
—Once 1600 boats were operating on the
canal between Schuylkill Haven and
Philadelphia, and now there are about
50 :
—Igniting a body of gas with his naked
lamp in a Minersyille colliery, Patrick
Bakey was killed by the resulting explo.
sion.
—An Allegheny county Judge, dissolved
the injunction that prevented mine
workers from congregating at the Cleve-
land gas coal pits.
—Lancaster's new Health Board consists
of M. F. Steigerwalt, Dr. D. R. McCor-
and James Shand.
—Early Friday morning the residence
of Charles Cole, near Falls Creck, was de
stroyed by fire. Itis believed the build:
ing was fired by tramps.
—With a pistol she found at pJersey
Shore, little Sadie Hubbard shot Wesley
Burkholder in the neck, inflicting a dan.
gerous wound.
—Assistant Superintendent Alexander
Bryden, of the Pennsylvania Coal jCom-
pany, has been made superintendent
with headquarters at Dunmore.
Suit for. $2),000 damages has been
‘ought at Carlisle by Mrs. Emma Boyd
against the Philadelphia & Reading Rail.
road for the killing of her husband.
—Attorney General McCormick heard
quo warranto proceedings brought by
Henry Brooks against the African Metho-
“dist church, Philadelphia, on Tuesday.
—The Logan iron and steel company at
Burnham has posted a notice of a volun.
tary increase of wages of twenty-five
cents per ton to affect all the men in the
rolling department.
—These new Pennsylvania postmasters
were appointed Monday, vice resigned
predecessors; H, L. Campbell, Brinkhill,
vice C. L Colegrove ; Miss S. E. Mast, vice
J. G. Mast ; H. A. Greiner, Mansdale, vice
Joseph Correll.
—At Williamsport Friday morning An-
drew Snyder attempted to awaken his
wife, but was horrified to find her cold in
death. Mrs, Snyder had been complain.
ing of pains inthe stomach, but her con.
dition was not considered serious, and on
Thursday evening when she retired she
was apparently as well as usual.
—A man giving his name as Coxey was
arrested at Lewistown Saturday night for
forgery. He presented a certificate of de-
posit at the Rudisill National bank for
#110 on a Harrisburg bank and drew a
draft for $100 which Cashier Milkison
cashed. A telegram sent to Harrisburg
revealed the fact of the forgery.
—William Strayer, of Altoona, was shot
by Policeman Block, of Johnstown, on
Wednesday last at South Fork. while
i rant for fast driving on the streets of
' Johnstown. Saturday Strayer died at the
| Altoona Hospital from the effects of the
wound, which was at the base of the spi«
nal column. ;
—The Philadelphia and Delaware Coun-
—The body of a male infant in a cigar.
mick, R. M. Reilly, Dr. H. E. Muhlenberg,
, running away from the service of a war--
—.